Flowers Aren’t the Only Things Out this Spring - I Detect Buyers!
Do I really want to be honest with you and say when my last closing occurred? No, I don’t WANT to, but I will. It was in December. I have remained busy … taken four listings, counseled someone on renting their home because of poor home values, have worked on a couple of lease purchases. But no closings.
This is about to change, thankfully. One of my listings has sold and we’re waiting only for the appraisal to come back. My heart is in my throat as I anxiously await the findings. One of my lease-purchases moved in yesterday, so we continue to move them toward final purchase. And my phone is beginning to ring … people are calling interested in buying.
Today’s article on MSNBC.com underscores that buyers may be returning to the market, but they don’t seem to be in a hurry.
The number of house hunters out this spring is an encouraging sign that the real estate market is beginning to turn around. There’s just one problem — a lot of them are in no hurry to buy, according to interviews with dozens of shoppers at open houses last weekend.
The market’s turning point will be tough to predict, because it will be gradual and obscured by conflicting signs like recent housing reports that showed sales of previously occupied homes fell 3 percent from February to March, while new home sales seemed to have bottomed out.
I am trying to hang in there as a Realtor - finding ways to earn extra income while I wait. Finding ways to contact those potential buyers. Finding ways to contact the people I know who might refer someone to me. Trying to be realistic and not let my Pollyanna dreams mar reality. I wait.
